Changing MTA DNS name in Exchange 2007

Hello,

I'm having a problem...

We're running single server Exchange in a computer called srv-1.domain.com.
By single I mean such installation, where single server is running all the
server roles (including Junk mail filtering). We have configured an
additional DNS entry for mail.domain.com in our DNS system (and external DNS
is also configured such a way that mail.domain.com can be found) and we would
like to use that name instead of srv-1, which is only for internal use. For
instance all our certificates are named for mail.domain.com, to enable error
free access from outside world.

The only problem is that server is returning srv-1.domain.com as it's name
while communicating with other servers and clients. This is problematic,
because there's a mismatch with server certificate (mail.domain.com) and MTA
returned server name (srv-1.domain.com) and configured MX / Mail DNS entries
in external world. How could I change the name Exchange MTA returns, without
changing primary servername (srv-1). We can't change the primary name of the
server (srv-1), because it's running several other services as well, instead
we would like Exchange only to use manually defined name (mail.domain.com).
Is it possible to configure Exchange this way, and if it is how to do it?

jrisku
Fri Mar 14 09:19:04 CDT 2008

Some additional information: I've tried to change the name on receive
connector's properties dialog, but I'll just get an error:

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Microsoft Exchange Error
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The following error(s) occurred while saving changes:

set-receiveconnector
Failed
Error:
When the AuthMechanism parameter on a Receive connector is set to the value
ExchangeServer, you must set the FQDN parameter on the Receive connector to
one of the following values: the FQDN of the transport server
"SRV-1.domain.com", the NetBIOS name of the transport server "SRV-1", or
$null.

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In other words I guess, I need a way to define this without changing the
primary DNS name or NetBIOS name of the transport server.

"jrisku" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem...
>
> We're running single server Exchange in a computer called srv-1.domain.com.
> By single I mean such installation, where single server is running all the
> server roles (including Junk mail filtering). We have configured an
> additional DNS entry for mail.domain.com in our DNS system (and external DNS
> is also configured such a way that mail.domain.com can be found) and we would
> like to use that name instead of srv-1, which is only for internal use. For
> instance all our certificates are named for mail.domain.com, to enable error
> free access from outside world.
>
> The only problem is that server is returning srv-1.domain.com as it's name
> while communicating with other servers and clients. This is problematic,
> because there's a mismatch with server certificate (mail.domain.com) and MTA
> returned server name (srv-1.domain.com) and configured MX / Mail DNS entries
> in external world. How could I change the name Exchange MTA returns, without
> changing primary servername (srv-1). We can't change the primary name of the
> server (srv-1), because it's running several other services as well, instead
> we would like Exchange only to use manually defined name (mail.domain.com).
> Is it possible to configure Exchange this way, and if it is how to do it?